Humanode: The number of mainnet validators is increasing, Humanode Chain reaches 1 million blocks, The team updated Rust and Substrate to the latest versions, the Humanode website gets a new look, Humanode Hangout is back, and more!

January 25th 2023

Biweekly update vol.41, 11th January — 25th January

TL;DR

Dear community members, it’s time for our biweekly report on Humanode! The last two weeks were full of hard work — so let’s point out some key updates.
First and foremost, Humanode Chain has just crossed an exciting milestone of 1 million blocks. The great thing is that from the genesis block, the Humanode Network with a unique security mechanism and equal validators remained up and running for the whole time without any interruptions. The mainnet hit more than 360 validators and the numbers keep increasing. With the mainnet, Humanode became the first crypto-biometric blockchain network where one human = one node = one vote that brings Sybil resistance and innovative governance models to the crypto industry using biometric technology. And it is always a pleasure or us to see the network grows!
During these weeks, Humanode teams were working tirelessly making significant progress with current tasks. The Humanode’s development progress was minutely shared in the regular update. As for the network development, they implemented CI fixes, bumped substrate fork to locked/polkadot-v0.9.36 and Rust to Version 1.66.1, added Workspace to more CI jobs, Machine, Extrinsic, and Overhead commands for benchmarking. While working on the Humanode Web App, the team updated confirmation pages (Enhanced UI and text). As for Oauth2 Server, they rewrote it into multi-crate for dependency isolation, and enhanced parsing by switching to envfury. Also, the team updated dependencies for the Websocket tunnel, moved the contract address into the query for Payments-svc, and switched to Proper get request with a query string for Payments-svc.
And last but not least, the Humanode website has got a new design. Give it a look!
That’s all for today. All the love, all the power!

Humanode Mainnet

Beginning as a dream in 2017, put into action in 2020, and 4 public testnets with over 10,000 unique participants starting in 2021, Humanode has launched the first crypto-biometric blockchain network where one human = one node = one vote that brings Sybil resistance and innovative governance models to the crypto industry using biometric technology.

Be sure to claim tokens as you need some to deploy the node:

Token claim: https://token-claims.mainnet.stages.humanode.io/
Launcher: https://launcher.humanode.io
Guides (Validator and Token claim): https://gitbook.humanode.io/mainnet-guide/
In-depth docs: https://gitbook.humanode.io/docs/
Airdrop article: https://blog.humanode.io/sybil-resistant-retroactive-airdrop/

Overall deployment

• Humanode’s Sybil defense is crypto-biometric based, meaning that there is no PoW or PoS. No changes have been made for the mainnet so Humanode is the first network ever to deploy a consensus safeguarded purely by Proof-of-Uniqueness and Proof-of-Existence of human beings.

• By design all human nodes are equal in terms of validation power.

• Besides the mainnet the team is also going to launch a canary network, a testnet for the mainnet, and a testnet for the canary network to give tools to build some really creative stuff.

• As on Ramiel and Gaghiel consensus mechanism that is utilized is Grandpa + Babe with the hard consistency threshold at 66% + 1, or more specifically a BFT formula of n = 5f + 1, where n — all human nodes and f — malicious nodes.

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Humanode Chain has just crossed an exciting milestone of 1 million blocks. The great thing is that from the genesis block, the Humanode Network with a unique security mechanism and equal validators remained up and running for the whole time without any interruptions.

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The team noticed that some users are facing issues in claiming airdrop tokens.

So far, they found out that some users haven’t mapped their addresses while others were facing issues with the mapper, and they contacted the team to resolve it. Currently, the team is working on solving this issue, and rest assured that anyone who participated in the testnet before August 16th and mapped addresses can claim the tokens.

So if you are unable to claim the token, please fill in this Google Form with all the details.

Humanode Testnet

Testnet 4 ‘Gaghiel’

Testnet 4 “Gaghiel’’ is focusing on token claims, vesting, and unlocking systems that the team uses to distribute tokens at TGE. Gaghiel is open to everyone. If you’d like to run testnet 4, this is specially prepared for you: https://link.humanode.io/testnet4

Click here to read the details about Gaghiel.

🔺To check how the network runs🔺:

If you have any questions reach the Humanode team on:

▲ Telegram Chat ▲

▲Troubleshooting channel on Discord ▲

Development

Humanode Dev Updates

Here are the bi-weekly updates on the Humanode network.

Humanode Network

🔺Implemented CI fixes

🔺Bumped substrate fork to locked/polkadot-v0.9.36

🔺Added Workspace to more CI jobs

🔺Bumped Rust to Version 1.66.1

🔺Added Machine, Extrinsic, and Overhead commands for benchmarking

Humanode Web App

🔺Updated confirmation pages (Enhanced UI and text)

Oauth2 Server

🔺Rewrote into multi-crate for dependency isolation

🔺Enhanced parsing by switching to envfury

Humanode Website

🔺Implemented the new design

Others

🔺Updated dependencies for the Websocket tunnel

🔺Moved the contract address into the query for Payments-svc

🔺Switched to Proper get request with a query string for Payments-svc

Awareness & Events

Everything you wanted to know about the Humanode Fee Distribution mechanism

As you all have been asking about the criteria for distributing fees in the Humanode Network. The team has laid down everything about the Humanode fee distribution mechanism in detail. Give it a read to understand how the fee is distributed in the network.

MISC

Join the team this week on the Humanode Hangout in Discord.
The Humanode website has got a new design. Give it a look!

Human nodes, got 10 seconds? Please help the team complete the survey by clicking the link here.
Scam alert: there is a Humanode Hub named group with a different handle. Check humanode.io for links.